Sentences with phrase «against a female for»

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He'll be looking for vertical media brands with female - leaning audiences, which the company can sell ads against with using its existing sales infrastructure.

«So while it may not be the sexy choice to walk away from young female shoppers, moving against the grain could mean big things for Le Château — and their bottom line.»

The Brooklyn - based attorney was in the news two years ago for filing complaints against New York City schools for actions taken against female students who'd alleged sexual attacks by male students.

As a white female, it would be inappropriate and ignorant for me to use my voice speak out against minority social movements like the Black Lives Matter movement, the Gay Liberation movement, or Latino Social movements.

Last year, men celebrated the event by donning dresses and high heels to hike up a mountain in Guangdong Province, and five female activists were arrested for planning a protest against sexual harassment.

Publicly embracing art — as well as crafts and fashion — was a way for her to rebel against what a tech executive was supposed to like, especially a female tech executive.

This week, The Guardian reported that a female Tesla employee had filed suit against the electric - car company for what she called «pervasive harassment.»

I find myself very concerned about the well being of innocent men and boys at the hands of what I truly believe to be a feminist conspiracy against the well being of men for female domination.

Some of my toughest matches have been against females and I respect every one of them for having the courage to do what they do.

The family, along with the state today, has sought to control women through rigid definitions of sexuality and appropriate for itself reproductive rights and control over her body; violence and subjugation have been woven into institutionalized forms of religion whose patriarchal tenets have marginalized and domesticated the female and the feminine, shackling her and legitimizing violence against her.

More generally, one is likely to be struck by the extent to which the book addresses itself to a world of male «female relations and childrearing that has been, for better or worse, consigned to the past, as vanished as the code of chivalry» although preserved in Freidan's book as (like Whyte's conformism) a summum malum ever to be guarded against.

As a general rule of thumb, I would say that religions are at their best whenever they challenge their members to chafe against preexisting identities — for example, when St. Paul says that «in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female.»

Twenty home nations boxers will step into the ring for their semi-finals while England men will look to go one step further than their female counters and win their hockey semi-final against Australia.

Several Spartak Moscow fans say police refused to allow female fans into the stadium for Friday's match against Rubin Kazan unless they complied.

Condoms for women: The female condom is a thin polyurethane pouch that's inserted into your vagina before sex to prevent pregnancy and guard against exposure to STIs.

One study cites a 26 — 31 % decrease in the development of breast cancer in females who had been breastfed as babies; if you or she takes no other preventive measures against breast cancer, breastfeeding her alone sets your baby girl up for a nearly 1/3 lower likelihood of developing breast cancer later in her life (Freudenheim et al., 1994).

For six months, I have been anxiously waiting to see how FIFA, US Soccer, US Club Soccer USCS, American Youth Soccer Organization AYSO, California Youth Soccer Association, Inc, would respond to the class action lawsuit filed against them on August 27, 2014, This lawsuit pit three mothers and two female college students vs FIFA, soccer's worldwide governing body — the Fèdèration Internationale de Football Association, soccer's worldwide governing body and affiliated soccer organizations in the United State.

Following Assemblyman Vito Lopez's censure last week for sexually harassing two female staffers, the New York Times reported Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had «quietly» settled at least one other complaint against the powerful Brooklyn Democrat, using an undetermined amount of taxpayer dollars to do so.

As detailed by Jon Baines, in 2014 the Lib Dems used a campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM) to grab email addresses and details of people it thought would be sympathetic, and then sent them a similar series of emails asking for support.

Connecticut Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty announced she will not seek reelection this year amid calls for her resignation over her handling of the firing of a former chief of staff accused of harassment, threats and violence against female staffers in her congressional office.

Femi Makinde The Governing Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, has set up a joint investigative panel with the senate of the institution to further probe the sex - for - mark allegation levelled against Prof. Richard Akindele by a female post-graduate student of Business Administration, Monica Osagie.

It takes a special kind of depravity for a congressman to suggest to a female staffer that she carry his child for $ 5 million and then retaliate against her when she declines the offer, as former Rep. Trent Franks reportedly did last year.

Rep. Trent Franks, R - Ariz., resigned after he reportedly suggested that a female staffer carry his child for $ 5 million and then retaliated against her when she balked.

McLaughlin's final months in the Assembly were dogged by the revelation that he had used abusive language against a female aide, and he was sanctioned by the chamber's ethics committee — after election day — for allegedly asking another lawmaker's aide for nude photos.

The photo and others like it quickly went viral, and for good reason: the all - male panel encapsulated many women's sense that the pushback against the new rule was driven by certain men's desire to control female sexuality.

He also explained how a young female Jewish Labour activist had been reduced to tears following attacks against her for working at the Israeli embassy.

Representative Nan Hayworth's official campaign spokesman actually went so far as to call for violence against sitting female Democratic Senators.

«The Oba stated during the meeting that it is unthinkable for a man with his level of exposure to do or say anything that would be seen as discriminatory against the female gender.

She said it has been her goal to recruit more female candidates for office — a head - on offensive against Democratic efforts, through the Women's Equality Party that Gov. Andrew Cuomo created, to use gender issues to drive up turnout.

The announcement follows an open letter from Time's Up, the female - led organization formed in the aftermath of the Weinstein scandal, to «open an investigation» of District Attorney Cyrus Vance and his office «to determine the facts related to the decision not to prosecute Harvey Weinstein for sexual abuse crimes against one of his accusers, Ambra Battilana.»

But after an ethics panel ruled the Brooklyn power broker sexually harassed several female staffers, many, including a group of men concerned about violence against women, said it's time for Lopez to leave office, CBS 2's Tony Aiello reported Wednesday.

It felt like she was being doubly discriminated against [for being female].

When Mr. Bloomberg ran for a third term in 2009 against Bill Thompson, who is black, his performance in minority communities was staggeringly low: just 22 and 23 percent of black male and female voters supported Mr. Bloomberg, exit polls showed.

The 68th Assembly District female district leader, Gina Smith, filed the complaint against Lilly this week after she began looking into where he lives while collecting signatures for the race.

I don't think any candidate for office in New York State - where we have strong laws against discrimination due to sex — should hold any meetings in a place where female members of the press are not allowed.

Members of the Parliament's Lower House previously attempted to revise Afghanistan's electoral laws to remove the requirement for female representation on provincial councils; while conservative MPs have called for the repeal of the Elimination of Violence Against Women Law.

The very act of caring is so gendered, that type of work is so overwhelmingly female and then their supposed «natural» inclination to do it is almost used against them when they want to ask for decent wages and benefits and working conditions,» he said.

Smith's fears for the safety of young female activists emerged as the Women Liberal Democrats group wrote to Nick Clegg with concerns about the vigour of the party's investigations, saying its members had been «shocked and saddened» by the allegations against Rennard.

Republican Assembly candidate for the 99th District, Mark Levy, said,» I agree with Assembly candidates Jennifer Whalen (R) of AD 110 and Frank Commisso Jr. (D) of AD 109 that Sheldon Silver has failed female employees in this state by his handling of the charges against Assemblyperson Vito Lopez.

And though he wasn't accused of any crime, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez was forced to resign his seat in May in the wake of a scathing report about his bullying and sexually inappropriate treatment of female staffers — now the subject of state and federal lawsuits against Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who apologized for quietly settling earlier complaints against Lopez with a taxpayer - funded confidential settlement.

Silver, who is under fire for mishandling sexual harassment accusations against now ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez, held an emotional breakfast with female members of the Democratic conference.

Yet, despite increased global attention to violence perpetrated against women and girls, and recent advances in knowledge about how to tackle these abuses (Paper 1, Paper 3), levels of violence against women — including intimate partner violence, rape, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and forced marriages — remain unacceptably high, with serious consequences for victims» physical and mental health.

Males mount females and females sometimes mount them back; females rub against other females just for fun; males stand rump to rump and press their scrotal areas together.

Patricia Backwell of the Australian National University in Canberra says that although there are many cases of female weaponry — in lizards, crabs and some dinosaurs, for instance — in most cases it is used in defence against predators.

Nicola Watson and Leigh Simmons of the University of Western Australia, Perth, pitted female dung beetles (Onthophagus sagittarius) against each other in a race for dung — a valuable resource that provides nutrients for their eggs.

Arguing that she was qualified for tenure and had been discriminated against because she was female, she appealed to the dean of the school of engineering, who organized a committee to examine the matter.

Unlike earlier in the season, multiple females often vied against each other for a single male's attention, and males became much more likely to break off a courtship than females.

The researchers purified 312 of the proteins, injected them individually into female mice, waited for the mice to develop antibodies against the proteins, and then tested the offspring of the injected mice for their susceptibility to the bugs.

Or it could be that low - ranking females team up for support against harassment from higher - ranking females.

Odette Sansom, one of the few female spies for the Allies in World War II, bore witness against Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg.